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WTH #666: M.Obama Quotes Saul Alinsky in Campaign Speech
Clash Daily ^ | 8/28/12 | staff

Posted on 08/29/2012 9:20:22 AM PDT by Nachum

Last night Michelle Obama used lines from Rules for Radicals, a radical Far Left book by Saul Alinsky (“father of community organizing” and a notorious far-left radical) in her DNC Convention speech.

Gateway Pundit nailed her:

What to make of Michelle Obama’s use the terms, “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be?” From whence do they originate? Try Chapter 2 of Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals.

“Barack stood up that day,” talking about a visit to Chicago neighborhoods, “and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be…” And, “All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won’t do – that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.”

Here’s an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals:

“The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive — but real — allies of the Haves…The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means… The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.“

Dan Reihl writes that although Gateway Pundit points out that Michelle Obama quoted concepts from Rules for Radicals in her speech last night and suggests she heard it in church, more likely, it was Barack Obama that came up with it due to the individual who started him off in his activist pursuits – Jerry Kellman, an organizer working on Chicago’s far South Side.

Kellman was an Alinsky protege.

After college Obama moved to Chicago to be part of the Jerry Kellman organization as a community organizer. [Kellman was a Saul Alinsky protege.] Among the primary goals of Alinsky was radical socialism and redistribution of wealth. Alinsky taught his proteges to “HIDE” their true goals by any means necessary. Lying was fine. The objective of Alinsky and Kellman was to turn people against the white establishment.

Do the Obamas really think that all America is as blind as the Obamanauts and starry-eyed Democrats at the convention so as to not see through the Obama’s ‘touchy-feely, God and country’ charade – aware of their Marxist agenda and what they are really saying?


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1 posted on 08/29/2012 9:20:30 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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2 posted on 08/29/2012 9:24:16 AM PDT by Nachum (The List was hacked- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

“we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.”

Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more


3 posted on 08/29/2012 9:25:33 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: Nachum

When Christ is King, THAT will be ‘The World as it SHOULD be’.....They don’t have much time left and Satan is very angry...........


4 posted on 08/29/2012 9:28:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
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To: listenhillary

Ten years after - I’d love to change to world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzrUqAtUcpU


5 posted on 08/29/2012 9:29:52 AM PDT by Nachum (The List was hacked- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

That’s a great accomplishment - the DNC convention hasn’t taken place yet!


6 posted on 08/29/2012 9:29:56 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Red Badger

Yeah, he’ll be really angry with the fact that Obama is the best he could do.


7 posted on 08/29/2012 9:34:05 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Nachum

“Freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies”...sounds like the DNC.


8 posted on 08/29/2012 9:35:22 AM PDT by socal_parrot (I hate to say I told you so, but...)
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To: Nachum

DNC isn’t till September? What convention was she at?


9 posted on 08/29/2012 9:39:45 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: socal_parrot

I was torn as to what song to offer. This one should be appropriate for the DNC convention I think:

Dr. Hook - Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9bKdIG_Yw


10 posted on 08/29/2012 9:44:52 AM PDT by Nachum (The List was hacked- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum
Did I miss something? Michelle O gave a speech last night at the3 DNC?
11 posted on 08/29/2012 9:54:24 AM PDT by jan in Colorado (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. --George Orwell.)
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To: Nachum
FWIW

August 2008. Michelle Obama at the DNC. Widely stated elsewhere that she used references to Saul Alinsky, at that convention.

12 posted on 08/29/2012 10:13:03 AM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: Nachum
“For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”

—Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

13 posted on 08/29/2012 12:01:02 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Tzar

To me it means the writer hates the rich more than he/she loves the poor....but your take is very good as well.


15 posted on 08/29/2012 1:56:07 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: Nachum

When I read what the Wookie said, and compare it to the quote from Alinsky in context, it seems she’s twisted what he said 180 degrees. He seems to be arguing we need to work with the world as it is, and she’s saying the opposite.


16 posted on 08/29/2012 2:00:39 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: listenhillary

“Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more”

And then the poor, having served their purpose as ‘useful idiots’, can go ahead and starve just like they did in every single commie nation that’s ever existed.


17 posted on 08/29/2012 2:02:44 PM PDT by MeganC (The Cinemark theatre in Aurora, CO is a 'Gun Free Zone'. Spread the word.)
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To: Tzar

And all this time I thought it was just a dum-azz lyric designed to help sell the song, thus making the writer rich enough to care.

:^)


19 posted on 08/29/2012 2:18:54 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: Nachum

Placemark. Just been too busy to read much lately.


20 posted on 08/29/2012 10:29:01 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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